How was your weekend, mine was fab,
sometimes the simplest days are the best, yesterday I spent about 3½hours in the
kitchen cooking loads of food, made Broccoli and spinach soup, savoury bread
pudding, spaghetti bolognaise, beef larb, chicken & broccoli bake, spinach
and cheese lasagne and liver and onions, mmm, so I’m sorted for the week meals
wise. The best of it was most of the
ingredients I used were from the reduced section, whenever I go in the
supermarket and they’ve reduced the mince or chicken I buy it and freeze it, the
broccoli was also reduced when I went shopping Friday and I didn’t use it till
Sunday and it was still ok. The savoury
bread recipe is great for using up your stale bread. The recipe for that can be found on my
website, it’s on the Bev’s Bites 2 download page 10 http://www.happyowls.co.uk/recipes.html (this booklet is also available to buy in my
meeting and all the money is donated to the Teenage Cancer
Trust).
The chicken and broccoli bake was a
new recipe for me and I have to say the sauce tastes good so I’m assuming the
meal will too.
Here’s the recipe;
Creamy Chicken and Broccoli Bake, 6pp per
serving
Ready
in 55 mins,
Serves:
3
Prep:10 mins | Cook:45 mins
1 can Campbell's low fat condensed chicken soup (4pp)
50g / 2oz Hellmans Extra Light Mayonnaise (4pp)
1 tsp curry paste
Splash of skimmed milk (1pp)
1. Cook broccoli in boiling water until almost
tender.
2. Place chicken breasts and broccoli in a shallow
oven proof dish.
3. Mix together the soup, mayonnaise, and curry
paste with a splash of skimmed milk (to double cream consistency).
4. Spoon the mixture over the chicken and broccoli,
coating them well.
5. Bake at 190C / 375F for 45 mins or until
bubbling all the way through.
For an extra 2pp per person I topped mine with
cheese.
After my mammoth cookathon, I took Alfie over
Cannock Chase for a couple of hours, we didn’t walk it was too hot, instead we
sat and watched the world go buy and had a natter, whilst Alfie tormented Roxie
(I’d say his new playmate but if she could talk she’d tell him to sod off, she
doesn’t want to play with him). I did
smile when little Jenny said about Alfie, “Look at him so proud of his
smallness”, and she was spot on, my Alfie is proud of who he is, just like his
owner. So take a leaf out of Alfie’s
book and be PROUD of who you are because you’re perfect for you.
Apart from Friday night, I haven’t had a drink
since Tuesday and I hope to keep that momentum going for a while yet, it has
become a habit, get in from work pour a glass of wine and some habits can do
more harm than good, so it’s one I need to undo. I’m trying to decide what to replace it with,
I can’t start drinking diet coke every night because that’ll stop me sleeping,
although I’ve slept like a brick the last few nights. Maybe sugar free squash, I do enjoy tea but
don’t want to drink more than I already do.
Fruit teas perhaps, mint tea is quite refreshing, and I have some
Elderflower cordial in my cupboard (that’s the same colour as wine too
;D)
Think about your habits this week, we’ll be talking
about them and other things in this weeks meeting. See you on weigh day. xx
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